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[beyourarmy]

[First all to be seen is an angry blond with two feathered wings protruding out his back over a ripped shirt. He steps in the fountain, shouts things at the sky, turns to leave, then stops, staring right at the screen.]

Huh? What's this thing? [Camera angle tilts.] Looks like a camera. With a keyboard. Maybe a very small computer. But maybe a video camera, too, 'cause I'm on the screen, and it says it's recording. [Keeps examining it.]

Uh. Whatever. I don't have time for this. [Angle changes as he's about to put it down, then he suddenly stops and quickly it's pulled back to this face.]

Wait! Does this pick up sound? Can you hear me? God, you asshole?! Sara? Kurai? Lucifer? Uriel? Michael? ANYONE? What the hell is going on out there? I came in to find God and he's not here? [An arm flings out in irritation to gesture at his surroundings.]

Where are you? You hiding from me? Turning coward NOW, after everything?

We have something to settle, and I need to take Sara back and return the world the way it was. So get out here and stop playing these illusion games!

[He's quiet then and stares at the device while pushing at buttons on the screen, but it just goes to voice.]

Crap. Still says it's recording something. How do I shut this thing off....[Either he finally figures it out, or it turns off by itself.]



[ooc: For those by the fountain feel free to greet him in person.]

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[shall_yield_us]

You're in a land unknown, you have no guide, you have no strength, you have no allies. You have me. As strategy goes, you can't afford to dismiss me. Not... when I put myself ever so willingly at your disposal.

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[beyourarmy]

[Rosiel's got a point there, if Setsuna really takes the time to think on it. He's quiet for a moment - shocking!]

I'm not dismissing you. I just don't wanna be kissed by you.

As for allies, don't be so sure I have none. If we're here, the others might follow, don't you think?

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[shall_yield_us]

...oh. Oh, well... of course, that's...

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[shall_yield_us]

...no, that's entirely unlikely. You pathetic wretch, you're hoping she'll come, aren't you?

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[beyourarmy]

...I'm not so sure I want her here. She might be better off where she was.

I'd rather go back to her.

[No need to ask who he means there.]

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[shall_yield_us]

Tsk.... and yet, yet, yet, yeeeeet... if you die here, you can't well return. Hasn't anyone told you? Oh, now I've told you.

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[beyourarmy]

No, no one told me yet. Not that I plan to LET that happen, anyway.

[It happens all the time, regardless, because he's stupid about himself that way.]

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[shall_yield_us]

[ just. this. smile. ]

And things, as they would, always happen as the Messiah plans.

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[beyourarmy]

[And Rosiel has ANOTHER point, one Setsuna really doesn't like.]

What? So you're gonna kill me? Is that what you're saying?

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[shall_yield_us]

And chance that whatever shackled Alexiel to the entity of 'Setsuna Mudou' should break without her body near to regain its soul?

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[shall_yield_us]

...I'll think on it.

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[beyourarmy]

Don't be stupid.

[He's thought of something! Go figure. But it's really important.]

Her body's not here, is it? Unless it came with one of us, what do you think would happen if you killed me? Where would her spirit go? It might not be able to reach her body from here.

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[shall_yield_us]

What's this? My own argument against me. Ah, Sevotharte, your revenge at long last - and from the sweetest lips, to think.

Precious Setsuna, that meager insecurity would be why now you breathe and you live. I assure you.

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[beyourarmy]

As long as I have my body to search for a way out.

Don't you want out of here? I can't imagine you'd be happy here.... [Or what if this is the only place for Rosiel to go now that he's deceased? If that was the case, well, then, Setsuna would prefer he stay. But.... Is this all that remains for him?]

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[shall_yield_us]

...you care. You can pretend to care. Fascinating survival instinct.

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[beyourarmy]

...I know it might be hard to believe, but no, I'm not pretending.

I know we've got a lot of bad blood between us, but I meant that.

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[shall_yield_us]

Nor have I ever killed a man with my bare nails so blunted.

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[beyourarmy]

...what are you trying to say now?

Are you being sarcastic?

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[shall_yield_us]

Am I?

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[beyourarmy]

How would I know? I'm asking you!

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[shall_yield_us]

And I've given you answer, it's only not the one you want.

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[beyourarmy]

With you, especially, it's never the one that I want.

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[shall_yield_us]

[ blowing up for the 50th time today, a Setsuna special - ]

And that would be your trouble, wouldn't it?

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[beyourarmy]

[Setsuna's good at causing those, even with people who aren't Rosiel.]

Does it bother you just as much? That I'm also not the answer you're looking for?

[Yep. He went there. He's not Alexiel.]

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[shall_yield_us]

Does it bother you that I could carve up every bone of your face and shift the every tissue and cut up the fat until you become my answer, Setsuna Mudou?